July 6th in History

1189 - Richard I "the Lionheart" acceded to the English throne.

1415 - Jan Hus was burned at the stake.

1483 - Richard III was crowned King of England.

1535 - Sir Thomas More was executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England.

1557 - King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, set out from Dover to war with France, which eventually resulted in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.

1560 - The Treaty of Edinburgh was signed by Scotland and England.

1630 - Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus landed in Pomerania, Germany.

1785 - The dollar was unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States.

1887 - David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, was forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.

1939 - Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany were closed.

1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

1962 - The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, aired on RTÉ One for the first time.

1964 - Malawi declared its independence from the United Kingdom.

1966 - Malawi became a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.

1967 - Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invaded Biafra, beginning the war.

1975 - The Comoros declared independence from France.

1995 - In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia began its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and killed more than 8000 Bosniaks, in what then- UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called "the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War".

Famous Birthdays

1623 - Jacopo Melani, composer and violinist

1782 - Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca

1789 - María Isabella of Spain, Infanta of Spain and the Queen of the Two Sicilies.

1796 - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia

1832 - Maximilian I of Mexico, only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire.

1868 - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, daughter of Edward VII of the United Kingdom

1907 - George Stanley, designer of the flag of Canada

1914 - Vince McMahon, Sr., founded WWE

1921 - Nancy Reagan, actress, 40th First Lady of the United States

1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, 1st President of Poland

1935 -  His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, The14th Dalai Lama

1940 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan

1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States

1956 - Casey Sander, actor

1966 - Brian Posehn, actor

1978 - Tamera Mowry, actress

1978 - Tia Mowry, actress

1986 - David Karp, businessman, founded Tumblr

1987 - Kate Nash, singer-songwriter

1990 - Jeremy Suarez, actor